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Your Guide to Libertyville Days Festival 2017
The fun gets underway Thursday evening with the four-day festival continuing through Sunday.

LIBERTYVILLE, IL - It's almost that time of year again. The Libertyville Days Festival will get underway Thursday and continue through the weekend, bringing musical entertainment, an arts and craft fair, parade, delicious food and drink and plenty of activities and special events to downtown Libertyville. Many of the events will be run in Cook Park and along Church Street.
Here are some of the must-see events and entertainment at this year's festival:
- Main Stage Musical Entertainment will feature Sneezy and Hello Weekend on Thursday evening, Rollover With Louie Zagoras and GooRoos on Friday, Wheelhouse and Wall of Denial on Saturday, and Mellencougar and Rock City Seven on Sunday. The full schedule can be found here. In addition, Cook Park will feature plenty of additional entertainment throughout the weekend -- you can view the full schedule here.
- Arts and Craft Fair will be held at Cook Park from 12 to 8 p.m. on Friday, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
- Church Street Eats, located along West Church Street from Milwaukee to Brainerd avenues, will offer a wide variety of food vendors. The food will be available to purchase from 5 to 11 p.m. on Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday and from 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
- The Beer Garden, located in the civic center parking lot, will be serving up brews from 5 to 11 p.m. on Thursday, 4 to 12 a.m. on Friday, 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
- Carnival, located at the civic center municipal parking lot and sunrise rotary park, turns on its rides at 6 p.m. on Thursday and will remain open through 10:30 p.m. Hours of operation for the rest of the weekend are 1 to 11 p.m. on Friday, 12 to 11 p.m. on Saturday and 1 to 5:30 p.m. on Sunday.
- Activities and Special Events will be held throughout the weekend. For more information, visit here.
- Parade: The parade will step off at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The parade will begin at the Metra train station and head south on Milwaukee Avenue to Rockland Road.
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